Chapter 172: Gale Squad Cleverly Obtains Intelligence, Group B Hits A Snag
“Ignore this fool. Tell me what information you know. Our positions are the same now; you don’t want to be kidnapped away, right?”
After having someone take away Number Two, who was full of unwillingness, Gale’s Captain sat across from the volunteer and controlled his tone, trying to make himself look more approachable.
Hearing the Captain’s words, the volunteer chuckled lightly: “Captain Comrade, in fact, the role I played in your confrontation training was just a minor character.
Being kidnapped or staying here is fine for me either way; it’s all just for Gao Zhong Dui’s sake.
Your win or loss against B Group has nothing to do with me; I’m just an outsider.
Tell me, what reason do I have to leak Group intelligence to you? And I suddenly remembered something.”
At this point, the volunteer looked at Gale Number One with a beaming smile, deliberately not continuing to keep him hanging.
At this moment, Number One was eager to know B Group’s intelligence. Even though the volunteer had clearly stated he wouldn’t reveal information about B Group, what if?
This volunteer playing the hostage was different from them and hadn’t received relevant training, so the probability of him slipping up was high, making it worth spending time chatting with him.
Figuring out the key point, Gale Number One pretended to be anxious and asked: “What is it?”
“You forgot, all civilian personnel participating in your training have to sign a Confidentiality Agreement.”
The volunteer looked at Gale’s Captain, his eyes flowing with a beaming smile.
Damn it! How could he have forgotten this!
Number One was clearly too concerned and confused, eagerly wanting to know some intelligence about B Group and overlooking the Confidentiality Agreement.
“In that case, I won’t chat with you anymore.”
With that, Number One left the volunteer and turned to walk to the next room.
He defined this conversation as a chat.
He gained no useful intelligence at all and wasted time in vain—what else could it be but a chat?
The earlier mention of someone with exceptional stamina in B Group immediately made Number One think of Chang Ning, who had broken Wolf Fang training records multiple times.
Anyone who could enter Lone Wolf B Group couldn’t possibly be a good-for-nothing pretender, so Number One temporarily set Chang Ning as a member of B Group in his mind.
Considering that anyone who could enter B Group was no ordinary person, it was actually easy to guess the candidates for B Group members, but it was just a guess.
Members of their Tactical Squad had very high secrecy levels, let alone the Lone Wolf Commando Unit at the top of Wolf Fang’s combat power pyramid; their secrecy level was no lower than that of their Gale Squad.
Thinking this way, the conversation with the volunteer might not have been a chat after all; at least it pointed him in a direction he could reference.
For the upcoming Combat Plan, as long as they targeted those who had won awards and evaluations multiple times as main references, they were sure to be on track.
Returning to his comrades, Number One first comforted Number Two, who had cooperated with him in acting earlier.
They were all elites from frontline Military Units selected through layers of selection—how could there be someone with such an impulsive personality? Number Two was just acting to help Number One extract intelligence from the volunteer.
“Hey, it’s nothing.”
The Team Leader’s comfort made Number Two a bit awkward; his personality was naturally a bit shy.
Being praised so much by the Team Leader in person, his speech was even a bit incoherent.
“The hostage we’re responsible for protecting knows some B Group intelligence, but he’s bound by the Secrecy Order and can’t reveal it.”
“So does that mean the act we put on earlier was for nothing!”
As soon as Number One finished speaking, someone couldn’t hold back and spoke up.
Hearing this news, even though the others had mentally prepared themselves, they couldn’t help feeling disappointed, and this feeling showed on everyone’s faces.
“What? Without intelligence support, you’re scared?”
Number One said faintly.
“How could that be! We’re just indignant about the useless effort we made earlier!”
Number One’s words didn’t win the team’s agreement. Besides, agreeing with him would prove they were too useless.
“Since that’s not the case, then please perk up.
Even if it’s really Lone Wolf B Group coming, I believe we can still tear a chunk of flesh off them!”
The noise from the next room was quite loud; at first, the volunteer could hear Gale Squad’s words clearly.
Gale probably noticed their voices were too loud, and later it became hard to hear clearly.
But this wasn’t important to the volunteer. Just as Gale’s Captain had guessed, the volunteer did know the inside story.
He even knew the complete script for this Red vs. Blue confrontation training, which was one of the conditions for the volunteer to participate at Gao Zhong Dui’s invitation.
Listening to the occasional whispers from the next room, the volunteer smiled; he was growing more expectant of the collision between the two sides.
With his hint, would that guy Chang Ning be eliminated early?
Picking up the bottled water from the coffee table, the volunteer anticipated inwardly.
“How will you cope this time?”
During the forced march, Chang Ning always felt his nose itching, wanting to sneeze.
“It couldn’t be someone talking about me behind my back, could it?”
Chang Ning muttered to himself. After thinking it over, he felt that among the people he knew, Gao Zhong Dui was the most suspicious.
At this thought, Chang Ning couldn’t help shivering; being talked about by Gao Zhong Dui was not a good omen.
Shaking off the stray thoughts in his mind, Chang Ning lay in the grass, his sharp eyes observing the surroundings through the gaps.
His gaze went from near to far, over the hidden corners at the forest edge, toward the Training Ground bathed in the sunset; it was eerily quiet, without even bird calls.
The Training Ground lay like a massive beast in the jungle.
“Hiss, what a grand setup!”
In his line of sight, Chang Ning had already spotted five large buildings. If it weren’t so deserted, he would believe it was a town.
After marveling a bit at Gao Zhong Dui and He Da Dui’s boldness, Chang Ning gave a wry smile.
This Training Ground’s area was too vast, unlike any CQB Training Ground at Wolf Fang Barracks; hiding six or seven people was effortless, directly increasing the mission difficulty.
On the surface, their Lone Wolf B Group against Gale Squad wasn’t a guaranteed win, but gaining the upper hand should be easy. But no matter how skilled they were, they had to find the opponents first.
Looking at the Training Ground filling his view, Chang Ning suddenly felt the pressure double.
Due to the Leader’s attention, they not only had to show a huge advantage over Gale’s performance but also strive for perfection in details.
For example, how to quickly find Gale Squad in this vast Training Ground and kidnap the hostage from them.
Before Chang Ning could worry, Geng Jihui’s voice came through the earpiece: “Sha Po Lang, have you run into any issues there?”
It turned out that Geng Jihui, seeing Vanguard Chang Ning not providing feedback for a long time, asked as per routine.
